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.. .. .. .. .. .. 71-year-old Akatoshi Kobayashi is nearly blind in his left eye, an eye weakened by 56 years of working with ivory. Kobayashi is famous in Japan for carving ivory

hankos, traditional Japanese stamps, and today he shared his techniques with Alaskan native carvers. It's too fast. It didn't take long for the native carvers to try out Kobayashi's souping dodo. Most artists today found the tools a little hard to get used to, but Kobayashi says he's looking at developing a long-term relationship between Japanese and Alaskan carvers. I feel that there is a common bond, and this is something that can be nurtured in the balance. With my line of work I would need a strong machine, a more durable machine, but for our workers who do scripture, this would be a great machine here. Kobayashi is a master teacher of ivory carving in Japan. He had this advice for Alaskan carvers.

Persevere. And stick with it, and then you will attain you to perfection, success. It's not a perfect relationship yet between Alaskan and Japanese carvers, but this meeting at an anchorage craft shop could be just the beginning of what Kobayashi calls a beautiful cultural relationship between the artists of Japan and Alaska. We move on to the mantras report, and we call it that we do. It's just my town.

I've been here going that seven years, and I want to walk through these streets looking up and say, I paid you for that truck I bought, and I paid you, but it is important. We move on to the mantras report. I'll see, many of the week, and there's some complications, and I was out of the office for the part of last week, with all favorites, and post, and time, very numbness to the end. In convert to the

began to have very intense Maybe it's impossible to fix it could be part of my sources as a new welfare program and tripod.

I want you inside now, without the water glasses, I can do that, we'll finish the Macedonian Wars. Always setting that one, she's not going to have some hair on her shoulders. Eugene, I'm coming!

And wash your hands! Mother makes spaghetti with ketchup. What chance do I have? I'm almost through, Mom. I can walk down to the beach today. Very slowly, I hope. Yes, Mom. That's it. Here goes. I'm going to be in a Broadway show. It's a musical called Abracadabra. This man, Mr. Beckman, he's a producer. He came to our dancing classes after then it picked up three girls. We have to be at the Hudson Theatre tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, to audition for the dance director. But I know him. He pulled me aside and said the job was as good as mine. They're just looking for dancers. On Broadway, you have to sing and how do you know you never saw Broadway show? Didn't they ask you how old you were? He didn't ask me. They didn't ask if you were 16. He just asked me to add to somebody who's excited. My God. I'll be sitting right next to a showgirl. No, can you go to Philadelphia? What about school? School? Oh, Mom, this is a Broadway show.

This is what I want this, Mom. Let me do something for you now. I can be making almost 60 dollars a week. Maybe even more in a few years after I get into a high school. I really fear trouble. This is really shocking. Because dad's the kind of guy who can get himself out of any type of trouble. What kind of trouble? I got fired today. Why should I get the doctor? No, I don't mean any doctors. It's going away. It's better. But I can still hear the whistling sound. Will you shut up, Laura? Help your right-kating the kitchen? Welcome, good. This chicken's name is Puffy. He is one of the few chickens here.

We've raised in a project called Olmett Philbocata Farm. We incubated 21 of them. We're still waiting for more of them to hatch. We have an incubating them for about 27, 28 days so far. We've been doing pretty good. Is this sleeping, man? Yeah. Puffy is usually a tired one among the other two, one or two we've had so far. He's just a very active one. He used to be, but no longer. There we go. All right. Let's go right over here and find out if you can see. There's Puffy right there. There's Puffy right there. There's Puffy right there.

There's Puffy right there. There's Puffy right there. There's Puffy right there. There's Puffy right there. People can understand what we do a little bit between us and medicine and stuff.

I think it makes them less afraid of nurses, less apprehensive of when they come into the hospital. Because anytime you understand something, it helps decrease some of that. One of the difficulties of getting you big nurses, you big to become nurses. Actually, I think part of the problem is there's not a program here in Bethel in the Yukon Hospital in Delta area. I think if we had maybe the college could get something like a two-year program, an associate program, I think we'd see some maybe you big men and women going into nursing. It's hard when they have to leave their families and their friends to go far away to Anchorage to Fairbanks. It's scary for them.

Lots of these kids haven't been out of their villages, their whole life, and that's hard to leave and go that far away from home. Other than that, I'm not really sure because the kids that we get in here on those study programs, the student programs are smart, they seem to enjoy the work. I don't know. Maybe that's something they could look into getting the college here with a two-year program or two-year program for an associate degree, I think, with a whole lot. It's a good time we doesn't get old, but I think it's important also that we in nursing recognize nursing day, not just one year, but that it's every day that we work. It helps with morale. We do need, you pick nurses, we absolutely need new big nurses, but it's a question that I think that you pick people need to ask themselves in order to take the responsibility

for the culture. There's a lot, westernized medicine has a lot to offer, and so does the cultural medicine aspect of it. And for those two to work together, you pick nurses would be invaluable for that. You pick doctors. You pick people within the health care system. Right now, our health aid community health aid program is incredible. We need to be able to bridge that, but I think we need to go a step further and encourage the profession to listen to it. And I know there are a lot of people who are going into their physician's assistance programs and nurse practitioner programs and interners and new cells, but like Lorena said that we need to encourage the profession, nursing profession, with the younger population, going into schools, into high schools, and do some PR work.

And approximately five o'clock yesterday afternoon, McGrath, that we were repeating on the air. The announcer came on and explained that, and I believe it was Melanie Strickman operating at the time, and said that they had a report that the runway at McGrath was becoming submerged and that water was covering the runway, and that it was a rapidly approaching the KSKO studios.

And that if it came up near the studios, they were going to have to evacuate because of the they were going to have to shut it down because I understand a lot of their electronic switching equipment is in the basement of their building. And consequently, that would be flooded. And approximately half an hour later, five thirty last words were basically we're shutting down the water as approaching the building. Very fast, it's right outside the back door. And that was the end of them. And that was the end of the day, and that was the end of the day. Awesome. I'm going to get that out of control.

The evidence this morning after is clear. The Kuskakwim River owned McGrath. It went very solid, used to boat to save his building materials, but for his family, the flood got serious wind. When we last the outhouse, that's when it got serious. Good way out there anymore. Russell Ivy's dogs were chained up. He nearly lost them to the river. I was born and raised here and it has never come over that road in 54 years. The ice jam broke around one this morning, allowing flood waters to recede. The city was moving to repair roads washed out by the flood, but the city's roads repair budget $1,200 to cover an estimated $100,000 loss. We've got areas we can't even work on yet because the water's still running through it. I don't know what we're going to do. The question everyone in McGrath is asking tonight, even Lee Chamberlain flooded out today after last week winning $70,000 in the banana ice classic.

Maybe all of that can do as they win so many lose them. There's a good chance of some moderate flooding for Bethel and upriver also. The next two or three days, I don't suspect that jam at the pocket will hold all that long. It's only a couple miles of not all that strong ice, but there's a lot of water coming down right now. I think what's going to happen, the big action will be in the next 24 to 30 hours. I would strongly suggest that living down low areas start packing the things up to higher

elevations. It's sort of the usual situation that happens every year when an ice gets down to the Pacquiac and Bethel sort of backs up. Plus this year there's a lot more water coming down than usual. You know that any act that jam went out overnight. There's a lot of water behind that. There's more water coming down later in a week from McGrath that area. That's one thing to keep in mind that even when the water clears out next few days, there's going to be ice coming and there'll be high water in this area around Bethel for a good part of a week, week and a half. And there's also a lot of snow up in the mountains, so you're going to have high water coming down to the mountains.

There's a lot of water coming down to the mountains. This is the lowest part right here, so after this it'll be better. Okay, we're going to lift you up. You can ride up front here with us. Forward. I'm going to take a look at the chip.

The feeder's last name aren't they? No. The feeder's last name aren't they? The feeder's last name aren't they? The feeder's last name aren't they? I have enough windows to check with them. Hello. And everybody come on beat. Yeah. Hello guys. Hi. Wait, wait, wait. No, no, no. No, no, no, no. No, no.

Okay, hold on. You have my mom. You have my mom. You have my mom. You have my mom. You have my mom. You have my mom. You have my mom. I want to go for the new record. I'll go back. I'll go back. That's the first. You're going to get out of here. Okay. Well, just whatever. You want the cake, right? Yeah. You just want to share a body cake. You ready? Check it out. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Easy. Great.

Good. Take us for the Mescoquen River to regurgitate all the ice out to sea. Then almost like clockwork, the smells arrive. working their way up the river from village to village to village. The schools move pretty quickly, so you have to pay close attention to all of nature's cues. You have only one chance to get them, because smelt swim up mother cusquim only once a year. You pick elders say to watch the swallows. When the birds skim closely over the contours of the ground and water, that's a sign the smelt are moving up river. But this year, it wasn't the swallows who tipped me off. But my next-door neighbor, who had gone out to check his set nets, and returned with a fistful of smelts. Since I don't own a boat, I tempted several relatives with the news. I also offered to buy gas, which afforded me passage on their 16-foot aluminium skip. We voted just a few miles up river from Bethel, and stopped next to a meadow to begin dipping,

not to be confused with skinned dipping. Deep netting takes a little practice. It sort of looks like an extra large butterfly net. You have to work with the current, pulling the nets through the water slightly ahead of the current, which clips along at about 10 miles an hour. It is against this current a smelt must swim, dodging swift channels, and taking refuge in swirling eddies near the riverbing. My first dip produced nothing, probably because it had been a full year since I dipped last. Gradually, I got the hang of it again. On my fifth dip, I caught five smelt. The sixth produced nineteen, and the next produced a mass of silver, as if the multitude was suddenly brought into the life of some black existence. The thrash spot almost like there was a riot in my dip net. Many people asked me how the smelt smelt.

Curiously enough, they smelt like cucumbers. They're sort of about the same size too. Some of them measure twelve inches long. The smallest was about the size of my pinky, and oh, my mouth watered just thinking about the evening feast to come. My muscles ached as my hands clung to the end of the pole. I guess I lost some muscle tone over the weekend, but the task brought back many memories of my childhood. When we used to pile into my grandmother and grandfather's boat, I was too small to dip then, so my grandmother held me at bay to keep me from going overboard. My grandfather, whose father was of Scandinavia and origins, ate his smelt fried in shortening after being rolled in seasoned flower and cornmeal. My grandmother, a full-upic Eskimo, liked them plain boiled. Smelt belonged to the herring family. It's very bony, although the bones themselves are more like cartilage than bone. The scales are transparent and shimmer like silver,

about a sixteenth of an inch wide. They don't seem very fatty, but I've heard old stories about sailors who used to boil them and use the fat for candles or oil lamps. In the old days, you pick strung them on long, slender willow branches and hung them to dry. They're okay that way, but I like them cured in the smokehouse with alder or cottonwood smoke. I just peel their skins and tiny backbones like I would have been on a, and like a true yupic gourmet, dip them in sea loyal. Mmm, asekpa. In case you're wondering, that's yupic for it's very good. In bethel, I'm John Active. Scary, scary, scary. Well, I think the council decided to terminate the contract,

at least I made the motion to that effect, and because of the continual downhill slide of performance based on the last two years of performance, and we felt that it was time to get new management. The morale is in all time low, and this budget that's coming up, there's certain positions that are cut that I don't feel need to be cut, and I just think it's time for new management. I thought it would be better if we had a transition period, and the abrupt termination, I think, was not in the best interest for the city of bezel. Okay. Thank you.

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Thank you. Thank you. There's a big racket coming out of the high school shop these days, but it's for a good cause.

13 kids are learning things that may help them decide what to do when they grow up. Cliff Andrews teaches vocational education at Bethel High School. I think this will encourage the kids to possibly go on and learn more about either boat building or in the welding field. They're building a 25-foot aluminum fishing skiff. The school district spent about $2,000 for the aluminum and shipping and about $5,000 on new welding equipment. After the boats down they'll auction it or sell it by bid and make up the costs. Andrew says the project is perfect for the students given their interest in boats. These kids know more about boats than I do. Students spent several weeks studying to prepare but with all of them working together the actual boat building will take only three days. Anchorage and Kodiak welding and boat building instructors are here to teach and to ensure quality control. In Bethel, I'm Jaclyn Estes.

That question was asked at the animal meeting and it has been asked for the last two or three animal meetings I've heard. We brought that question before to the shareholders of the corporation. They stated, no, it's not really a conflict of interest. The question that was asked was, is it all right for a director to be an employee? And the shareholders that offer them that. We already had the Indian summit brought us on.

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